Operation IceBridge 2010 Greenland Dates: 22 March - 27 May, 2010 Location: Greenland / Arctic Ocean Principal Investigators: NASA Headquarters / John Arvesen Aircraft: NASA 817 DC-8 (DFRC) / NASA 426 P3-B Orion (WFF) Additional Sensors: ATM, AirGrav, KU/Snow/Accumulation Radars, MCoRDS Objective: Operation IceBridge, a multi-year NASA field campaign, is the largest airborne survey of Earth's polar ice ever flown. It will yield an unprecedented three-dimensional view of Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets, ice shelves and sea ice. |
Processing Information Science Flights: 37 Total Frames Processed: 346,326 Frame Overlap: 60% - 80% Status: Level-1B imagery is available, see individual missions for details. |
Level-1B Data Distribution NSIDC Level-1B Imagery Archive NSIDC Raw Imagery Archive |
Related Web Sites Operation IceBridge Home Page National Snow and Ice Data Center Airborne Science Program |
Sample Imagery |
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Flight: 10-001-11 Rink Glacier, Greenland |
R: 0.65µm G: 0.55µm B: 0.45µm |
Sample Imagery |
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Flight: 10-002-10 Thule, Greenland |
R: 0.65µm G: 0.55µm B: 0.45µm |
Sample Imagery |
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Flight: 10-002-06 Nares Strait, Arctic Ocean |
R: 0.65µm G: 0.55µm B: 0.45µm |